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you know. this is dougall you news live from berlin millions of people on the move across the african continent refugees are topping the agenda as african union leaders meet in . our correspondent visit an ethiopian refugee camp and ask what the future holds for people there also coming up thousands of venezuelans flee into neighboring colombia and the humanitarian crisis in their country intensifies meanwhile the united states calls for fresh elections in venezuela but russia don't meddle in
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domestic affairs. plus today's highlights from the berlin international film festival spine thriller the operative sense suspense across borders while mr jones tells the tale of a journalist who exposed a family in the soviet union. welcome to the program marion evans team. leaders from across the african continent are in the ethiopian capital addis ababa for the annual african union summit rwandan president paul kagame e who's the outgoing head of a new has been pushing for the body to expand its powers he's just passed the baton on to egypt and president of tell sisi who will lead the blog for the next year the main focus of this year's summit is involuntary migration africa is home to
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a quarter of the world's refugees and ethiopia has become the continent's second largest post for displaced people. well some four hundred thousand of them are in the region is funny for char visited a refugee camp there please note that some viewers might find this report disturbing. we are traveling through a beautiful but dangerous region needed so sudanese border in the impoverished lowland of ethiopia lies a bed of conflicts among different ethnic groups. behind me that's all sudan a young independent nation but the fighting over there continues more than two million people flock to neighboring countries like you but this country produces hundreds of thousands of displaced people all these own did you ask nick clashes violence drought and flooding so what's the perspective for refugees here. if you
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become africa's second largest refugee hosting country in the gambell a region refugees number almost as many as ethiopians about four hundred thousand like this camp is home to sixty thousand traumatised refugees who fled fighting in south sudan. and when the war erupted in south sudan children were set on fire and many others were abducted. the soldiers even killed blind people. people were forced to eat dead bodies and have sexual intercourse with family members. boys were forced to have sex with their mothers. this trauma will not be forgotten. in the. brewery and her family feel safe in this camp it's supposed to be a temporary home but they've been here for four years already without permission to work outside the camp she fears the future looks dim. amanda now that i was when my
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husband was in south sudan he had a job but now he doesn't this is a problem because we depend on a lack of education is also a problem and i want education for my children and for myself and only then will we have a chance here and you know here. that's just one of the problems in the camp run by the un and if you open government. when we. have the refugees with the sort of is that we are providing to the refugee it is very. tender. states by united nations high commission for refugees people and the list resource and we are keeping almost. providing the basic service which is a live saving sort of we're almost focusing on the lifesaving side of life saving food food food. water and under so on outside the camp
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there are mixed feelings among the local population if you make you are are more while coming off refugees because many arriving from south sudan are from the same group but its u.p.s. apnic and work say they feel threatened. many of these refugees come from south sudan they're straining our resources we are getting poorer and so the government should help us to if not there could be clashes with the refugees. here in the city the new prime minister has promised opportunities for everyone refugees and locals but unemployment is very high in the region especially among young people. he said we don't see any improvement regarding the youth. there are no jobs we're trying to get ahead on our own.
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but we don't get very far. playing pool costs five b. or twenty us cents it's the only form of entertainment they can afford the lack of prospects drove ethiopians to streets to demand jobs last year if employment prospects armed force coming soon existing tensions over land and the city could boil over. now to some of the other stories making news around the world in moscow several hundred people have taken part in a protest walk in solidarity with political prisoners in russia the demonstration was sparked by the arrest of opd opposition activists. last month she was charged under a russian law that criminalizes working for so-called undesirable organizations. thousands of protesters have rallied in spain's capital madrid demanding that socialist prime minister petro sanchez steps down to protest was called by right
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wing parties they say sanchez has to resign after he held talks with catalan separatists who are demanding a referendum on independence. several paintings attributed to adult hitler failed to salad auction in the southern german city of nuremberg high starting prices of up to forty five thousand euros and questions over the authenticity of the artworks so the collection axed from the auction previous sales of hitler's work have sparked outrage due to his aren't being linked to the nazi past. the united states has presented a draft resolution to the u.n. security council calling for a presidential vote in venezuela that immediately triggered a counter proposal for russia which supports that as well as president nicolas maduro washington is also calling for a delivery is to be allowed into the country supplies have been held up at the venezuelan border. these images have shocked the
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world venezuelan soldiers preventing much needed aid from coming into the country from neighboring colombia but while the aid is kept out a steady stream of venezuelans pour into the colombian city of kuta over the nearby cmon believe our bridge. leaving behind hyperinflation and empty supermarket shelves these people exit by an official border crossing many others have not been able to obtain a passport and are forced to leave the country via smuggling routes cutting through the dry riverbed known a stretch as they are controlled by criminal gangs who extract a heavy transit fee from the migrants it's a price they are willing to pay in the hope of finding work and a better life in colombia. i'm going to mateen. because i have family there and we will work because there is nothing in venezuela the more
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you wait the worse the situation in venezuela will go. since neighboring countries demanded venezuelans show a passport more and more people are using the truck just to leave with no money for any transport they often have to walk for hundreds of miles it's a business opportunity for shoemaker domingo monte who also fled across the border . well. sometimes the shoes of a people as a come by are really damaged for falling apart with the sole missing i so vicious back together for anyone that needs it i charge five thousand pesos for every she the tile repair. even regular commuters have taken to the truck shows which snaked through the riverbeds only meters from the bridge. carlos career as a rule carries goods across the border to sell in venezuela and the black markets customs officers have clamped down on the cross border trade forcing carlos off the
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road to continue his work. don't let us work we have no other choice but to use the troops this. guys are not going to. carlos only earns four year olds a day shuttling goods across the border while for many of the truck shows or to scape routes for him they are a lifeline to. the french soccer club non to have held and moving tribute to their former player million of sala who died in a plane crash. a minute's applause was held before the match against me while the home players were black shirts bearing their former teammates named sol i was travelling from non to new club cardiff last month when the light aircraft disappeared from radar over the english channel tunnel to david it's and is still missing. american skiing great lindsey vonn has hung up her skis after
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nearly twenty years of unparalleled success finishing her career in familiar style with a metal van produced a fast clean run to claim bronze and downhill at the world championships in are a sweden she bows out with a record twenty world cup title surname and even reached another milestone in her last race becoming the oldest female medalist at a world championships the thirty four year old is retiring due to ongoing injury problems but she says she did her best iris at all today as always i was so nervous all day just serious anxiety you know i think i wanted more than anything to. finish strong that's the best i could have done today you know honestly. there's not another gear. and you know i can say that i'm very very happy and thankful for bronze. all right
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it's time for some movie news in the highlights of day four of the berlin berlin international film festival also known as the berlin allah let's go straight over to charlotte charles until who is on the red carpet for us hello to you charlene great to see you so what is on the screens today. hey there marietta well the full day is a very important day and the better not the shuttle and that is because we have just approaching the whole flight point but there are number of films in competition that we've had a sneak preview also we also starting to get an idea now of the films that are hits and the films that people probably should miss there are seventeen films in total in competition here they are all vying for that big top prize the golden bad the award ceremony being next week now you've also got serious i understand that this isn't just about the films or a lot of the people that gathered here behind me these people also
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a braving the cold that braving the rain to try and get a look at some of the stars in just a short time they are going to see some big names i think you'll be familiar with mariana there's martin freeman he's starring in a film that's about to premiere here is the british actor you might know him from the hobbit trilogy and of course diane kruger the german and american actress she starred in inglorious basterds she was in choice she is a big name here on the ballot all the cockpit so it's surely going to get a lot of people here very excited are what about the film the operative is not actually running in competition. no the bell another does like to confuse people of the obit there is this competition section twenty three films are in now but any seventeen of those are competing and the operative is one of those that isn't meeting for one of the top prizes but that doesn't mean that it doesn't still wants a good reviews after its premiere at the ballon on it now that is the film that is starring monson freeman undying krueger the premiere is just about to get under way
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here behind me if it is an israeli by the real or is based on a novel actually mariana it was written by a real life mossad spy and he detailed a lot of his experiences often quite gruesome in that book now the director of this film an israeli director. said that he did move away from the noblest little bit in his own screenplay nevertheless they still excuse. oh it looks like we may have lost our correspondent. all right let's get you a quick reminder now of our top story. africa's refugee crisis is topping the agenda for the continent's leaders meeting in the ethiopian for the annual african union summit the wanted president paul kagame a who's the ongoing head of the e.u. has passed the baton on to egypt and president sisi to leave the block for the next
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year. they're watching the w. news up next after a short break is world stories and we go to israel and look at a program linking young germans with holocaust survivors i mean i haven't seen thanks for watching. it take place. with a little wonderful one story that makes the game so special. for a true friend. was going to. take on more than football.
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